Slough Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DDDC EEEF GGGH IIIJ KKKJ LLLL MMML NNNO ABBO| Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough | A |
| It isn't fit for humans now | B |
| There isn't grass to graze a cow | B |
| Swarm over Death | C |
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| Come bombs and blow to smithereens | D |
| Those air conditioned bright canteens | D |
| Tinned fruit tinned meat tinned milk tinned beans | D |
| Tinned minds tinned breath | C |
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| Mess up the mess they call a town | E |
| A house for ninety seven down | E |
| And once a week a half a crown | E |
| For twenty years | F |
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| And get that man with double chin | G |
| Who'll always cheat and always win | G |
| Who washes his repulsive skin | G |
| In women's tears | H |
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| And smash his desk of polished oak | I |
| And smash his hands so used to stroke | I |
| And stop his boring dirty joke | I |
| And make him yell | J |
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| But spare the bald young clerks who add | K |
| The profits of the stinking cad | K |
| It's not their fault that they are mad | K |
| They've tasted Hell | J |
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| It's not their fault they do not know | L |
| The birdsong from the radio | L |
| It's not their fault they often go | L |
| To Maidenhead | L |
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| And talk of sport and makes of cars | M |
| In various bogus Tudor bars | M |
| And daren't look up and see the stars | M |
| But belch instead | L |
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| In labour saving homes with care | N |
| Their wives frizz out peroxide hair | N |
| And dry it in synthetic air | N |
| And paint their nails | O |
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| Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough | A |
| To get it ready for the plough | B |
| The cabbages are coming now | B |
| The earth exhales | O |
John Betjeman
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